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Simon Field (Curator)
Bearing in mind Peter’s admonition that cinema is perhaps the most influential art form of our time, Keith Griffiths and I have chosen to commission films for New Crowned Hope from a range of international directors of different generations and from very different countries and cultures, projects that reflect profoundly on aspects of our changing world.
In the ...(more)
Simon Field (Curator)
Bearing in mind Peter’s admonition that cinema is perhaps the most influential art form of our time, Keith Griffiths and I have chosen to commission films for New Crowned Hope from a range of international directors of different generations and from very different countries and cultures, projects that reflect profoundly on aspects of our changing world.
In the first instance, we chose to contribute substantially to the making of six feature films by directors from different corners of the world: Bahman Ghobadi from Iranian Kurdistan, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun from Chad, Tsai Ming-Liang from Taiwan and Malaysia, Garin Nugroho from Indonesia, Apichatpong Weerasethakul from Thailand and, with her feature debut, Paz Encina from Paraguay. All of them proposed major projects that reflected to varying degrees on, or that continued the spirit of, the Mozartian themes of New Crowned Hope, and which will take these themes in new directions appropriate to our time. And as did Mozart in music, these film-makers are seeking new ways in which to describe the world, ways that explore new possibilities for cinema and for life. These six features will be followed by further commissions of a small number of shorter films to further broaden our world view and bring films into the project from younger film-makers.In the pages that follow, we outline the first six features. Only two have actually begun shooting so far and thus enable us to present intriguing first images from their films: those of Garin Nugroho and Paz Encina.
All the films will receive their Austrian premieres within the New Crowned Hope Festival next year and will be presented in collaboration with the Filmmuseum and the Viennale. In addition, throughout November 2006 the Filmmuseum will present a special program of other contemporary films and filmmakers which complement the New Crowned Hope commissions. Thanks to a further collaboration with the distributors Stadtkino-Verleih, the films will go on to be screened throughout Austria.
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